Where does “pretender” come from?
Pretender comes from Middle French pretendre, from Latin praetendere meaning to put forward or allege, derived from the verb teneo meaning to hold.
pretender (English): A person who professes beliefs and opinions that...
Definitions
- A person who professes beliefs and opinions that...
Ancestry of “pretender”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tender | Sensitive or painful to the touch; Easily bruised... |
| 2 | English | tend | To make a tender of; to offer or tender; To be... |
| 3 | Middle English | tenden | — |
| 4 | Middle English | attenden | to attend |
| 5 | Old French | atendre | to wait |
| 6 | Latin | attendō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “pretender”